Few points given below are adequate to provide seed thoughts or tips to get you started on the way to a career in software testing.

Tips for starting a career in testing:

Pursue your line of study & strive to acquire maximum IT exposure in your field of study.

Other testers can be of great help in your endeavor. Have discussions with other testers and you can get fairly good idea about their jobs in terms of both technically as well as from the job satisfaction point of view.

Learn to be good team players, and be able to exhibit good interpersonal skills.

For example they must be able to report defects to developers without making them feel down on the one hand, and yet must correctly gauge defect importance and ensure that the developers will attend to important defects.

Concludingly, we can say that whichever way you may look at, the software testing is an upcoming, challenging and exciting career with long term-prospects.